« La Matinale » by Nolwenn Le Blevennec, from TV to Divan – Liberation

Taking up the narrative mode that uses Philip Roth In Portnoy and its complexwhich consists in making a character monologize in front of a psychoanalyst, Nolwenn Le Blevennec Place a forty -something, Léonore de Karadec, voluble television journalist, facing a sober analysand. The patient is among the 50 favorite personalities of the French. She is not Jewish, which changes everything compared to the masterpiece of Roth. Portnoy, thirty -something representative of young American Jews from the late 1960s, was fighting against the weight of the family, the mother especially and religion. He overflowed with complexes and desires. Léonore, a woman of her time, is not cluttered by timidity, neither by shame, nor by sex. She stands against those who could shade her, and against the habit that corrodes conjugal love. A year earlier she left her husband, a plump man with whom she had two sons, to be with Alexis, a Bougon, cynical, narcissistic journalist, whom she never really liked, then she hated. Soon Léonore may sleep in a prison cell: « The feeling of drowning does not give the right to drown others »pointed out the shrink.

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